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8 Document No. 11. [Session
condition in life ; its doors being alike open to the indigent
as to their more fortunate fellow-citizens. Looking to the
importance of this subject, and the grave consequences in-volved,
no apology is required for pressing it with earnest-ness
upon tlie consideration and attention of those who may
be charged with the responsibility and guardianship' of the
insane.
An act passed by the last General Assembly requires that
•• Whenever the Superintendent shall deem an indigent in-sane
person to be incurable, and that his being at large would
not be injurious to himself or dangerous to the community,
the Superintendent shall certify the fact to the Clerk of the
County Court of the County from which the said patient was
sent, and the said Court may, if deemed expedient to do so,
remove him from the Asylum."
Acting under the requirements of the pre-going law, notice
in the manner prescribed has been given to a few Counties
that the condition of some of their insane now in the Asylum
was such that they could be removed to their respective Coun-ties,
without detriment to themselves and as believed without
injury to the community. As yet however, no removal has
been made under the suggestions of the Superintendent. It
may be remarked in connection with this subject, that the
utmost caution and prudence are necessary in executing its
requirements. The fact that the responsibility for the proper
conduct of those who may thus be discharged_, would rest
upon the Superintendent, imposes upon him an amount of
lesponsibility by no means trifling. To the casual observer
or visitor who has formed an opinion of the management of
the insane by an occasional visit to the wards of an institution,
when for the most part Avill be seen a generally quiet and
orderly deportment on the part of the inmates, there would
seem to be but little difficulty in discriminating between such
as could be with safety to the community at least removed ;
but to him whose province it is to superintend, and is in daily
intercourse with its inmates, observing the frequent and sudden

8 Document No. 11. [Session
condition in life ; its doors being alike open to the indigent
as to their more fortunate fellow-citizens. Looking to the
importance of this subject, and the grave consequences in-volved,
no apology is required for pressing it with earnest-ness
upon tlie consideration and attention of those who may
be charged with the responsibility and guardianship' of the
insane.
An act passed by the last General Assembly requires that
•• Whenever the Superintendent shall deem an indigent in-sane
person to be incurable, and that his being at large would
not be injurious to himself or dangerous to the community,
the Superintendent shall certify the fact to the Clerk of the
County Court of the County from which the said patient was
sent, and the said Court may, if deemed expedient to do so,
remove him from the Asylum."
Acting under the requirements of the pre-going law, notice
in the manner prescribed has been given to a few Counties
that the condition of some of their insane now in the Asylum
was such that they could be removed to their respective Coun-ties,
without detriment to themselves and as believed without
injury to the community. As yet however, no removal has
been made under the suggestions of the Superintendent. It
may be remarked in connection with this subject, that the
utmost caution and prudence are necessary in executing its
requirements. The fact that the responsibility for the proper
conduct of those who may thus be discharged_, would rest
upon the Superintendent, imposes upon him an amount of
lesponsibility by no means trifling. To the casual observer
or visitor who has formed an opinion of the management of
the insane by an occasional visit to the wards of an institution,
when for the most part Avill be seen a generally quiet and
orderly deportment on the part of the inmates, there would
seem to be but little difficulty in discriminating between such
as could be with safety to the community at least removed ;
but to him whose province it is to superintend, and is in daily
intercourse with its inmates, observing the frequent and sudden